The Politics of the Textbook

ISBN-13: 9781138420267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Michael Apple

Opis

This important addition to modern German studies treats the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as a continuum, exploring its themes through the 1920s and 1930s without artificial breaks. John Hiden looks at key issues in political, social and economic history, and in international relations. He highlights Germany's potentially constructive role in Europe before Hitler; analyses the country's structural problems; considers the importance of personalities and personal responsibility in the period; and examines the legacy of the Third Reich to postwar Germany. Filled with energy and ideas, the book has an intellectual substance far beyond its relatively modest length.

Recenzje

"The essays are . . . well written and insightful, and will be of considerable interest to scholars, educators, and others concerned with the role of the school in social, political, and cultural reproduction." -- T. Reagan Choice

Spis treści

1: The Politics of the Textbook; 2: The Culture and Commerce of the Texbook; 3: Texts and High Tech: Computers, Gender, and Book Publishing; 4: With a Little Help from Some Friends: Publishers, Protesters, and Texas Textbook Decisions; 5: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in Current Textbooks; 6: Reclaiming the Voice of Resistance: The Fiction of Mildred Taylor; 7: Critical Lessons from Our Past: Curricula of Socialist Sunday Schools in the United States; 8: The Secular Word: Catholic Reconstructions of Dick and Jane; 9: Readers, Texts, and Contexts: Adolescent Romance Fiction in Schools; 10: Textual Authority, Culture, and the Politics of Literacy; 11: Textbooks: The International Dimension; 12: Building Democracy: Content and Ideology in Grenadian Educational Texts, 1979-1983

O autorze

Michael Apple, Linda Christian-Smith